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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:11:34 EST
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- Subject: Re: Ethics
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- Re the commentary on fraud (and cognates) in science: The PBS segment
- called "Do Scientists Cheat?" is a real eye-opener, in a number of ways.
- Some of the cases reviewed are psychological (e.g., the famous Cyril
- Burt case extensively studied by Leon Kamin) and some closely related
- (e.g., medication effects on mentally retarded individuals).
-
- We always hope that we have the guts not to cheat ourselves and to blow
- the whistle on the fraud we might uncover. But in the real world, one's
- actions have consequences that are not always salutatory--one might not
- get a job/tenure/promoted if one does not publish something, and given that
- the bulk of what gets published goes unread, and further essentially none
- of it gets replicated, who would ever know the difference if you just made
- one (or two or three or...) up out of whole cloth? We celebrate the
- courage of whistle-blowers, too, don't we? Don't bet your career on it...
-
- HERE is an issue with some backbone; it'll be interesting to see where it
- goes.
- Pat Cabe
- Pembroke State Univ.
-